Foraging Essentials with Chef Kristopher Edelen- SAT 9/14

Foraging Essentials with Chef Kristopher Edelen- SAT 9/14

Restaurants like famed Noma have based their cooking philosophy on foraging, with an app recently introduced by its proprietor, Rene Redzepi, to help demystify the concept that’s gaining more and more traction by the day.

Take a field trip with us to Inwood Hill Park, as we’re joined by Chef Kristopher Edelen, founder of Hot Pan NYC, an experiential events company focused on modern cuisine. On this trip, we’ll learn foraging techniques, plants to look for, and how to best cook them.

Overlooking the Hudson River, Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers to search for wild foods in the Fall, Spring and Summer. It’s the city’s hilliest park, complete with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas loaded with wild plants. Don’t miss a fantastic walk of this vastly under appreciated park.

We advise against dressing up in your Sunday best, as we’re going to get down and dirty. Bags or containers are highly encouraged to gather the items we forage. A pair of hiking boots are encouraged.

On Kris

Kristopher Edelen (also known as Chef KPE) is reinventing the modern America dining experience. in February 2014, he launched HOTPANnyc a culinary concept dedicated to native post-modern cuisine. He develops traditional and non-traditional delicacies that are multi-sensory, using sustainable ingredients. He takes advantage of technical innovations and scientific disciplines while using sustainable ingredients to create his own culinary narrative. His goal is to help our world rebuild itself by using methods from our prehistoric diets, including foraging, fresh produce , farming, fishing , hunting and entomophagy (the study of eating insects). Edelen promotes local and seasonal produce as a basis for new dishes and finds inspiration by looking at the past, present, and future. Edelen studied at the Culinary Institute of America and has been featured on the Food Network (Chopped and Cutthroat Kitchen),First We Feast and FYI.